Mary added, that the countess had informed her, that Elizabeth had suborned Rolstone to pretend friendship to her, in order to debauch her, and thereby throw infamy on her rival.

See Murden's State Papers, p.558.This imprudent and malicious letter was written a very little before the detection of Mary's conspiracy; and contributed, no doubt, to render the proceedings against her the more rigorous.

How far all these imputations against Elizabeth can be credited, may perhaps appear doubtful; but her extreme fondness for Leicester, Hatton, and Essex, not to mention Mountjoy and others, with the curious passages between her and Admiral Seymour, contained in Haynes, render her chastity very much to be suspected.
Her self-conceit with regard to beauty, we know from other undoubted authority to have been extravagant.

Even when she was a very old woman, she allowed her courtiers to flatter her with regard to her "excellent beauties." Birch, vol.ii.p.

442, 443.